Ten Canoes

A laugh-out-loud funny new film by the director of Bad Boy Bubby and Alexandra's Project

It is rare that film can transport its audience to a strange, unfamiliar,
yet entrancing world. Ten Canoes, an Australian movie that tells an ancient
Yolngu tale, presents such an extraordinary experience. With an all Yolngu cast, and based on Yolngu myths and stories, as well as a irreplaceable series of old photographs, Ten Canoes recreates the traditional life of the
tribe, its stories and its teachings. And it does all this while
entertaining and educating the audience.

The Yolngu, an Australian Indigenous tribe from Australia's Northern Territory near Darwin, have a long tradition of mythological storytelling as a means of teaching each generation the tenets and laws of the tribe. Through its narrator, the film introduces such a myth, but it does so through
the device of an inner story that is a thousand years old. The narrator,
David Gulpilil (The Last Wave, Crocodile Dundee, Rabbit Proof Fence,) sets
the stage at the beginning of the film.

The ancient myth, which is the heart of the movie, is beautifully filmed on location in color. It is a cautionary tale about the evil that can befall men when they let their passion and anger rule, rather then "they live
proper way."

Ten Canoes is an appealing film with universal themes that presents a unique
glimpse at a world that would be lost but for the efforts of filmmaker Rolf De Heer and the exceptional Yolngu actors...for whom this movie is clearly a
labor of love. (E.S. Mendel, CultureVulture.net)

Parking

Pay lot 360 (now only $1/hour!), across from the buffalo statue and next to the
Duane Physics tower, is closest to Muenzinger. Free parking can be found after 5pm at the meters
along Colorado Ave east of Folsom stadium and along University Ave west of Macky.

RTD Bus

Park elsewhere and catch the HOP to campus

International Film Series

(Originally called The University Film Commission)
Established 1941 by James Sandoe.

First Person Cinema

C.U. Film Program

(AKA The Rocky Mountain Film Center)
First offered degrees in filmmaking and critical studies in 1989 under the guidance of Virgil
Grillo.

Celebrating Stan

Created by Suranjan Ganguly in 2003.

C.U. Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts

Established 2017 by Chair Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz.

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Tickets
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